Overloaded Chinese truck overturns, 14 dead

BEIJING, Feb 7 (Reuters) A Chinese truck meant to carry a maximum of five people overturned and killed 14 of the 31 villagers aboard today morning, Xinhua news agency said.

All of the other 17 riding the pick-up truck to visit relatives were injured in Hefeng county in the central province of Hubei, Xinhua said.

China's police are at pains to cut road accidents during peak Lunar New Year travel period, one of the world's biggest mass migrations, when 1.3 billion Chinese are expected to collectively make 2.2 billion trips.

The Year of the Pig begins on February. 18 this year.

Two buses crashed head on into each other, killing 14 and injuring 75, in the southern region of Guangxi on Saturday.

China's roads are the deadliest in the world with accidents killing about 100,000 people a year.

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